HanesBrands Earns EPA’s Energy Star Environmental Excellence AwardHanesBrands has won its ninth consecutive Energy Star Partner of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

[Collection]HanesBrands, an American basic apparel manufacturer, said that it has won its ninth consecutive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for “sustained excellence in energy conservation, carbon emissions reduction and environmental sustainability.” The company will attend the Energy Star banquet in Washington, D.C. on April 20 to accept the award and liaise with other brands that have earned Energy Star recognition, including Allergan, The Boeing Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, General Motors Company and Raytheon. The EPA introduced Energy Star in 1992 as a “voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased efficiency.” Its annual Energy Star Partner of the Year award honors business and organizations that have “made outstanding contributions to protect the environment through best practices and organization-wide energy savings,” according to the firm. Its achievements in sustainability include lowering its year-over-year energy use per pound of production by 6 percent, resulting in savings of more than $4 million, and its reduction of “energy intensity” by almost 21 percent, which delivered a total cost avoidance of over $200 million since 2007 from its ongoing efforts, according to the firm. HanesBrands has also implemented a number of environmental stewardship initiatives; embarked on partnerships with various universities to

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